I have tested this and confirm that the issue is impacting the new JIRA issue view as the flip of the jira.issue.actions.order is shown correctly in the old issue view:
It was originally reported back in January 2019 as per the following link but it was closed as the team decided to have it defaulted to asc for now:
I would recommend you to comment on the ticket if you would like to see this potentially re-implemented in the future if we have interest from the rest of the users.
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